A traditional Blue Lagoon has blue curaçao, lemonade and vodka - so essentially full of sugar and booze. The peel is then removed and placed into a burlap sack where spices are added in with alcohol, which is derived from sugar cane.

DeKuyper is another well-known alcohol brand and their Blue Curaçao liqueur is unique in that it blends extracts of both oranges and lemons as well as peels from the lahara fruit. Since we like to focus on non alcoholic drinks, we use blue curacao syrup in place of blue curacao liqueur.

We are going to be running through some of the best brands of blue Curaçao that are on the market as well as some of the best blue Curaçao syrups so that you can make a start of some deliciously tropical cocktails! This unique spirit is made from the dried peel of the laraha fruit, which is found in Curacao, an island in the Caribbean. We get a lot of questions about this incredible citrus blue mocktail so we thought we would answer some of them right away. Make sure to check exactly what flavor your chosen blue curaçao is offering, just in case you would rather stick purely to an orange aroma and flavor rather than any other fruits.

Curaçao is a tropical island that is a Dutch-owned island that can be found in the Caribbean Sea, close by to Aruba and Venezuela. This choice is an all-natural orange syrup that can easily be added to a cocktail or used to create a mocktail. It’s become popular over the years for making blue alcoholic drinks that are often associated with beach resorts. It’s become popular over the years for making blue tropical drinks that are often associated with beach resorts. While some versions of this cocktail can be sickly sweet, make it with fresh lemon juice and soda water and it’s a refreshingly complex.

Place the rum, vodka, blue curacao, pineapple juice, lime juice, lemon juice and simple syrup in a cocktail shaker. These syrups are also great to be added to a wide variety of other drinks too – such as soda, juice, or an alcoholic beverage. It’s used in numerous cocktails but one of the most popular (and prettiest) is the Blue Lagoon (pictured below). While you can make your own blue curacao syrup recipe, you would have to get your hands on some lahara fruit.